It’s no secret that textbook shopping sucks. Yes, it’s a great business to be in for the publishers and bookstores, but as a college student, I hate that I’m expected to pay hundreds of dollars for textbooks that I’m only going to need for a few short months. My school’s bookstore, like any other, is [...]

I’m a sucker for free stuff, as much as I hate to admit it. Being on a college campus, I tend to go back to my dorm with a lot of free stuff I don’t really need or even like. Over the year I’ve accumulated t-shirts, water bottles, posters, and various other items. It’s not [...]

A Parade article this past Sunday titled Tax Breaks for Films Gets Mixed Reviews, discusses the argument of whether states should offer tax breaks and other incentives in order to get production companies to shoot movies and TV shows within their borders. In 2002, just five states offered such discounts; today, that number has grown [...]

In the study of economics, a person is represented as being a rational individual, making choices that will benefit himself. The Library of Economics (which, by the way, is quickly becoming one of my favorite websites) calls this person the “Economic Man” and describes him as always looking out for himself: He does not give [...]